Nancy (Michalek) Kaminski

Nancy (Michalek) Kaminski passed away March 23, 2024, surrounded by her loving family.

Nancy was born to Norma (Brannan) Michalek on March 10, 1956, in Milwaukee, Wis.

From an early age, Nancy had a knack for creating. As a girl, she spent weekends sewing with her grandmother. Nancy would practice this skill for decades to come. She worked as a seamstress at Gimbels and continued to sew throughout her life. Nancy made clothing and costumes for her children, altered clothing for friends and family, stitched up projects to decorate her home and made plenty of scrub jackets, surgical caps and masks for the many doctors and nurses she worked with throughout her career.

Nancy also happily spent countless hours in the kitchen, a passion she inherited from her mother. Those lucky enough to know Nancy surely indulged in many of her baked goods and wonderful dinners. Nancy’s talents gained her recognition in the form of Wisconsin State Fair ribbons, an article in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and plenty of requests to share her recipes (which she did happily).

Beyond crafting and baking, Nancy enjoyed her garden. She had a special love for beautiful flowers, having spent several years as a florist, but she also grew rhubarb, vegetables and herbs. Hardly a summer day went by without Nancy pulling out just one more weed before she ran out to spend time with family and friends.

Because Nancy never liked to sit still, she filled any spare time she could with games of cribbage with her husband Allen, traveling, bumming (Nancy’s term for shopping) with her sisters and daughters and volunteering at Ascension Columbia St. Mary’s Hospital.

What Nancy was most known for, however, was her warmth, kind heart and infectious laugh. These qualities made Nancy an incredible wife, sister, mother, grandmother and friend.

Nancy is survived by her husband of nearly 42 years, Allen; sisters Debby and Mary Michalek; children James, Charles and Chad Kowalewski (Katie), Heather Kowalewski, Angela and Lisa (Michael Stock); and grandchildren Benjamin and Anna Kowalewski. She is further survived by many, many friends.

Nancy is loved beyond measure and will be deeply missed by all those who knew her.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at St. Joseph Catholic Church, 1619 Washington St., Grafton, Wis., on Saturday, April 13, 2024, at 11 a.m. The family will receive family and friends at the church from 9 to 10:45 a.m.

Please see www.muellerfuneralhome.com for online condolences.